Amusement device.



N. P. LITHANDER.- AMUSEMENT DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1909.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

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NELSON P. LITHANDER, F HALLOCK, MINNESOTA.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application filed May 28, 1909. Serial No. 499,022.

vented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to devices which are employed by entertainers in the performance of tricks of legerdemain or magic, and has for its object to produce a novel device of this character, useful in the entertainment or amusement of one or more people. The device might be called a magic stick or pencil, as it apparently responds to passes of the hand or commands.

It consists of a light stick, preferably an ordinary pencil which has at one end a small, fine hook, which may be so engaged with the relatively tough skin of the palm of the performers hands as to cause the stick or pencil to have certain movements, the source of which is not readily discoverable. The hook is preferably mounted in such a way as to be readily concealed.

The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which it is illustrated and in which Figure l is a view in elevation of one end of an ordinary pencil equipped with the hook, the hook itself being concealed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a metal sleeve which resembles the sleeve by which an eraser is sometimes secured to a pencil. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an eraser such as is shown in Fig. 1 as supported by the sleeve. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the means for supporting the hook upon the end of the pencil stock. Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. l, but showing the hook in operative position. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating the manner of use of the device.

The device may be applied to any light stick, such as an ordinary lead pencil, as indicated at a, in Figs. 1, 5 and 6. Upon the end of the pencil is fitted snugly a cap 5 which carries and may have formed therewith a small, fine hook or bent point 0. As shown in Fig. 4, this hook may be formed by filing or otherwise cutting out the end of a strip cl which is turned up from the cap 6, such strip preferably standing about centrally with respect to the end of the cap. Over this cap I) is placed a sleeve 6 which fits snugly, but nevertheless is preferably capable of being moved longitudinally and also of being rotated, having an inward projection formed by an indentation, as at f, which may bear upon the end of the cap I), to prevent the sleeve from being pushed back or, being in line with the slot g formed by the cutting out of the strip d, will enter such slot as the sleeve is pushed back upon the pencil stick. In the outer end of the sleeve 6 is placed an ordinary eraser h which has through it a narrow slit or opening 71 sufiicient to permit the hook 0 to protrude through the eraser when the sleeve and eraser are pushed back upon the pencil. The inner end of the eraser is preferably recessed, as indicated by dotted lines at 70 in Fig. 3, to receive the end of the strip 0? and so guide it properly into the slit 2'. As represented in Fig. 6, the pencil or stick is placed upon the bottom of the hand with the hook 0 slightly palm near the wrist. If then the hand be I held in a natural, curved position, the pencil will rest upon the finger tips, but if the hand be slowly straightened so as to put the skin, at the place where it is engaged by the hook, under slight tension, then the pencil will rise, without apparent cause, into the-position shown in Fig. 6.

I claim as my invention:

1. An amusement device consisting of a light stick having at its end a fine, thin transverse hook adapted to engage slightly the skin of the performer.

2. An amusement device consisting of a light stick, a fine, thin hook mounted on the end thereof, and means to conceal the hook.

3. An amusement device comprising a light stick, a strip mounted on the end thereof and having its extremity formed as a fine,

I protrude through it.

thin hook, a sleeve mounted movably on the stick and a perforated plug in the end of the through it. sleeve adapted to permit the hook strip to This specification signed and witnessed this 24th day of May, A. D. 1909. 4. An amusement device comprisin a light stick, a cap mounted on the end thei eof NELSON LITHANDER' and carrying a fine, thin hook, a sleeve I Signed m the presence ofmounted movably on the end of the stick ELLA J. KRUGER, and a plug in the outer end of the sleeve peri AMBRosE L; OSrmA.

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